Picture books:
✅Funny, unexpected, character-centric books (like ELIOSE or DON’T LET THE PIGEON DRIVE THE BUS!).
✅Offbeat, ecosystem-centric books (like CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS or BROWN BEAR WOOD).
✅Interactive books (I SPY or WHERE’S WALDO).
✅Nonfiction/myth books for readers aged 6-8.
In Adult fiction:
✅ Horror that weaves in romance and humanity (I’d love an adult RAVEN BOYS)!
✅Futuristic worlds (cozy included)
✅ Compelling fantasy with or without big romance that keeps me on the edge of my seat!
✅ Weird or dark, feminist-centric, critique-of-capitalism genre work
YA and New Adult:
✅High impact, addictive-to-read, dangerous books (like HUNGERGAMES but in any genre).
✅Edge-of-your seat SFF and Big Drama! (Would love a TEEN WOLF or STRANGER THINGS-like project).
✅Stories with great bromances (like the TV show MERLIN; I love a good enemies-to-best-friends arc)!
Some things I'm hungry for are:
In MG:
✅Interactive, interesting format, & illustrated books!! Bonus if there's humor and a structure for the "scroller" kids.
✅Adventure, Quest, and Mystery books (with or without SFF).
✅Oddball stories (like ANIMORPHS) that hook into things kids are interested in.
Yes, if edits have been made you're welcome to sub again!
Hi everyone! I've reopened to queries for the first time in FOREVER. Very excited to start seeing everyone's work again. I'll be focusing most on PB, MG, YA, NA, and commercial adult fiction in multiple genres. For more, visit my MSWL page: manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/hi...
If you'd like to submit material to Laura, head over to our website! Submissions open on March 1st 💌
We loved The Resurrectionist from @araedunlap.bsky.social , now get ready for THE BONESEEKER! Your next queer, true-crime, historical fiction read to fall into.
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Repped by Laura Bradford, Coming in 2027 from @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social
"Memory Lane" by Evaline Horng
Available as: an author-illustrator or #illustrator
Focuses: picture books (author/illustrator), cover art, illustration in general, and graphic novels.
Website: evalineart.wordpress.com/blog/
Represented by: Hillary Fazzari
#kidlitart #illustration
“Morning on the Bar” by Tom Crestodina
Available as: an author-illustrator and #illustrator
Focuses: illustration, cover design, maritime/boat-based writing (nonfiction)
Website: thescow.bigcartel.com
Represented by: Hillary Fazzari
#kidlit #illustration
We are thrilled to share the cover reveal for Sun, Moon, and Star, a Korean folktale retold and illustrated by @nmillerillo.bsky.social 🌞🌝⭐
Three sisters must outsmart a hungry tiger in this fresh retelling of a beloved Korean folktale.
Out Feb. 24, 2026 by Holiday House Books!
Reposting so you all can see exactly WHAT I’m so excited for 😂😂😂
My QueryManager at the link above will automatically ask for the full manuscript, and I can't change that because it's a special link (since I'm otherwise closed to submissions). So where it says "upload the full ms" please upload the first chapter or proposal instead. Thanks!!
That's perfect! Thanks. QueryManager can be super weird but what you did works great.
If I heart your #DVpit pitch and you’re interested in querying me, please send me a query and the first chapter of your project for fiction and a query and a proposal for nonfiction: querytracker.net/query/Hillar...
Promo for Prince of Mourning, upcoming YA romantasy book by Jenn Bennett. Promo features a book cover with a mysterious looking dark haired teen boy wearing a jeweled mask. The promo directs readers to simonteen.com, where people can read first 6 chapters for free before publication on Oct 28, 2025
Want to read the 1st 6 chapters of my next YA book, THE PRINCE OF MOURNING? Head over to simonteen.com and read away! (It’s a dark Gilded Age romantasy that publishes later this month, Oct 28)
www.weareteachers.com/picture-book...
Brave Like Mom is 7 on this list of books to help littles process big emotions relating to a parent with cancer.
#kidlit #picturebooks #cancersucks
And having a BIG platform, even in fiction, is being weighed heavier than ever by publishing teams as they try to game their gambles around which books they think will go viral, which is often a losing game for all involved. 2/2
Authors, I highly recommend this read on the state of the market with the added note that I see a “track” that’s gotten attached to debuts as well.
Publishers are increasingly looking for debuts to bring marketing platforms w/them (be this via the authors’ social media, fanfic platforms, etc.) 1/2
Dipped into #unhingedpit today! If I liked your pitch and you’re interested in querying me, please send me a query and the first chapter for fiction projects and a query and a proposal for nonfiction: querytracker.net/query/Hillar...
"Back to Halloween" by Evaline Horng 🎃
Available as: an author-illustrator or #illustrator
Focuses: picture books (author/illustrator), cover art, illustration in general, and graphic novels.
Website: evalineart.wordpress.com/blog/
Rep: @hillaryfazzari.bsky.social
#kidlitart
"Cannery Dock" by Thomas Crestodina 🌲
Available as: an author-illustrator and #illustrator
Focuses: illustration, cover design, maritime/boat-based writing (nonfiction)
Website: thescow.bigcartel.com
Rep: @hillaryfazzari.bsky.social
pspsps only a few more hours to enter the goodread giveaway for HIGHER MAGIC, y'all www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
Heads up #amquerying: I will be open to queries from *October 12-19*, or until I reach 500 queries.
I am just about through the 500 queries I received in June - it has taken me 4 months due to health, working 3-3.5 jobs and making sure I have some balance remaining.
Thanks for understanding!
As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read.
They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.
Was clearing though some old docs on my laptop this weekend and found the annotated bibliography of documentaries I'd watched that I'd used to keep updated FOR FUN.
I repeat: MEDIEVALISTS HAVE ALL THE FUN
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!
📣 applications are open for periplus, a mentorship collective serving writers of color! 📣
if you’re looking for mentorship & more community & you’re a writer of color, you can find more info below. this will be the sixth year our collective is active
docs.google.com/document/d/1...